Technology Enhanced Learning: How to Guides and Video Resources

Learning and Teaching enhancement should always be the driving force for technology use, however sometimes you may just need to know how to perform technical steps to progress.

This area will focus purely on the step by step guides that are required to support your use of technology for our four core technologies.

Diagnostics

This area is dedicated to Study Skills Plus support materials, which is an online diagnostic and assessment tool to help students develop their core English and Maths skills. The online tools allows students to be assessed as to their current level against national curricula criteria. This area also hosts information on how to access the Study Skills Plus staff portal and tutor guides.

ePortfolios - Myportfolio (Mahara) How to guides and videos

This is the UEL student centered system that allows you to build your E-Portfolio. This area provides you with a range of How-to-guides on topics such as; (How to log on and navigate, what content to add to the e-portfolio, how to display content and share it with others, creating groups) and finding out more about what you can do with groups.

Lynda.com

Module Mapping Service

An free online education company that offers thousands of educational video courses and tutorials in software, creative and business skills such as 3D + animation, Photoshop, Photography, Developer, Adobe, Dreamweaver to name just a few. This area allows you to register as a member and login using a PC or mobile device.

Mobile Learning and Tablets

Guest access requires password

This area is for both new and experienced tablet users. It contains mostly practical support How-to-Guides and Videos, including FAQ’s, the latest information on devices, how to join the Tablet User Group, using Moodle and Kortext on the tablet as well as other tablet tools for learning and teaching.

MOODLE

It is the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) used at the University of East London (UEL). This area offers you tips and how-to-guides on topic such as; (How does Moodle work, How can you use it for assessments, How do you add activities, teaching and learning resources to my course, How can I set up a Mid-Year Evaluation, How can I track my students progress) including how to get started.

Turnitin

This is an originality checking and plagiarism prevention software used by students and teachers.  This area contains information on submission guidelines, how-to-guides on topics such as; (setting up links that students can submit to, marking students work, exporting grades to a spreadsheet, formative peer marking, anonymous submissions) and much more.

Video Capture - Panopto How to guides and videos

A video management software tool which is integrated with Moodle and available to all UEL lecturers for lecture capturing, flipped classrooms and assessments purposes to name a few. This area contains support videos including How-to-guides offering information on (how to install Panopto on various computers and devices, recording and uploading videos, preparing Moodle courses for Panopto uploads, how to allow students to submit their own videos) plus lots more.

Voting Technology

Voting Technology

Electronic voting technology can add interest to the way you deliver your classes by allowing student to interact in real-time. Please follow this link to see the various free platforms that you can use with your classes. Please note: we no longer support Responseware.